Friday, May 25, 2012

Greetings, Beneficent Bully-Boosters! Pat yourself on the back because you've popped in on a special day...it's my Seventh Blogiversary! (Yes, I'm only six years old...what is your point?) Seven years ago today I read some comics and started this little puppet-town cow-blog, and here, seven years later, the fun is still all around! (But mostly in comic books.)

I want to thank you all for reading Comics Oughta Be Fun!, because without readers, what would a blog be but a dairy? I mean a diary. Sorry, important cow words getting mixed up there. Thank you everybody!

As usual, I'd like to look back on the past twelve months and 366 days and trot out a few of my favorite posts (in no particular order)! I loved writing 'em and I hope you loved reading them! (And here they are again!) Enjoy!

Minder is a British comedy-drama about the London criminal underworld...The show ran for ten series between 29 October 1979 and 10 March 1994, and starred Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann, an honest and likable bodyguard (minder in London slang) and George Cole as Arthur Daley, a socially ambitious but highly unscrupulous importer-exporter, wholesaler, used-car salesman, and anything else from which there was money to be made whether inside the law or not....The series was notable for using a range of leading British actors, as well as many up-and-coming performers before they hit the big time, and at its peak was one of ITV's biggest ratings winners.

Here's a video of choice clips from the show that not only explains its concept and introduces its characters, but highlights the fine vintage '70s cars featured on the show!:

The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes: Batman is an amazing reference guide with hundreds and hundreds of entries on the characters, events, and tech of the every Batman story of the Golden and Silver Age, from 1938 to the early '70s. It may be dated by now, but this is still an amazingly entertaining reference guide; I find so many great delights in it, again and again. Fleischer published this book (and accompanying Superman and Wonder Woman encyclopedias) during a period when most of the "canon" had not been reprinted, so his chronological history and dedicated puzzle-assembly of the stories is groundbreaking: without the Fleischer encyclopedias, I don't think we would have had the authoritative works of internal comic book history like The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and Who's Who in the DC Universe. And it inspires you to want to re-read all the original stories, which are now more easily available to us today through DC's Archives, Chronicles, and Showcase Presents reprint series. Two hooves up: I highly recommend it!